Short Stacks Want Longer Break

That must be the reason why, with just five minutes left until the current break, so many short stacks were simultaneously getting it in, attempting to come back with chips, or enjoy the frankly unusually nice London weather tonight. Two who did not succeed in the former i.e. busted are Steinar Prestnes and Sebastian Bauer - leaving table Laak down to just five players at one point.

One who came upstairs to make up the numbers was an equally short-stacked David Williams, chewing on what looked like a glass cocktail stirrer. No, it's a diamond-encrusted toothpick holder. Laak eventually noticed this, saying with a laugh, "What do you get for the guy that has everything?" That, clearly.

Meanwhile Jeff Kimber, too, had gone dangerously close to the felt, before getting it in preflop with {K-Diamonds}

called by

. Double through to 5,000 for him.

Tags: David Williams Jeff Kimber Phil Laak

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

2008 World Series of Poker Europe

Short Stacks Want Longer Break